Thought Leader Profile

Harinath Garudadri

Founder & CEO, NadiWorks

Harinath Garudadri, PhD, is working on innovations on healthcare, with a current focus on research for emerging hearing aids.

Hari recently moved from industry to academia to work on technologies that will a) reduce the cost of healthcare delivery and b) increase the reach of caregivers' expertise to beyond hospital walls. Hari's background is signal processing; he has practiced in diverse fields such as speech recognition, speech, audio and video compression, multimedia delivery in 3G/4G networks, low-power sensing and telemetry of physiological data, reliable body area networks (BAN), noise cancellation, and artifacts mitigation, among other areas.

Hari's contributions have been incorporated into cellphones and commercial networks. He has 40 granted patents (8 in BAN, 8 in audio, 6 in video, 4 in speech, 3 in biomedical signal processing, and 11 in voice recognition) and over 14 pending patents in biomedical signal processing and related areas.

Prior to joining UC San Diego, Hari was at Qualcomm for 16 years in various roles, including multilingual speech recognition (English, Japanese, and Korean), speech and audio coding, and error-resilient low-power communications.

Speaker at FiRe 2025


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